At least it's only a day until Peg 2

Today I am mostly...trying to do all the things I tried to do yesterday when the data warehouse fell over *sigh* I'm not going anywhere fast, although I don't have to redo the things that got stuck yesterday which should help. I also have many, many meetings with colleagues to go through handover things because I will be out of the office for the next four days.

Wooo!

Today is another walking stick day, so it looks like I'll definitely be walking stick girl at Peg 2. Darn. At least I'm staying at the Sheraton where they have lifts and can register as disabled so I don't have to do too many of the Things That Really Hurt.

Sadly, our cat is being ill :-( He had an emergency trip to the vet last night because he hadn't eaten since Monday and kept being sick. The vet thinks that the stuff she prescribed for his overactive thyroid a couple of weeks ago was too high a dose so it's pushed him the other way. He just thinks he's miserable and why aren't we making him better? The vet gave him something to settle his stomach, but he still hadn't eaten this morning and he was sick again in the night. He also had an accident yesterday evening so we've given him a litter tray, just in case. We're also keeping him in the back room (don't much care about the carpets there) so that his range of destruction is reduced. If he doesn't start eating today, though, he'll have to go back to the vet and she will want to put him on a drip. Poor baby.

We're now trying to decide how much of this we want to put him through considering he's fifteen years old. He's been telling us voluably about how miserable he is right now, although that is a slight improvement from the constant sleeping before he saw the vet last night. We're not sure, though, how ill he's feeling and whether we're doing the right thing.

Looks like I'll have something to worry about while I'm away :-(

It meant that I only caught the last half of last night's Atlantis, The Tao of Rodney. I thoroughly enjoyed what I saw (poor woobie) and will have to leave a video set up for the repeat while I'm at Peg 2 so that I can get the full glory. I do see why everyone was squeeing about it :-)

Oh. Goodie.

It's fun working for a company with no concept of IT systems.

Today's little bit of fun: just after lunch, a software update started. At the end of the update, it wanted to shut down the computer.

It wasn't one of those "The computer must be shut down for the upgrade to take. Do you want to do that now?" dialogs. It was "The computer will reboot in 30 seconds."

Huh.

The postpone button gave you 5 minutes grace. Just about long enough to shut down things (given our fabulous network speeds) if you weren't in the middle of running someone. Not long enough if you had a report running on the data warehouse. If you didn't press postpone within 30 seconds, the PC rebooted no matter what. Yay. So if you weren't at your desk when it happened, the PC rebooted and you lost all your work.

For those who were at their desks, there was no way to anything other than reboot now or five minutes. There was no option to choose when to reboot.

Can you imagine the chaos and shouting when that happened to everyone in the department? I knew you could *sigh*

Oh, the joys of co-ordinated IT.

New Fic: A Very Athosian Courtship

That's right, I've finished my first fic for ten months and it's a short Teyla/Weir thing. Not connected to any series I've been writing and written to push myself out of the writer's block I've been having on fanfic.

Title: A Very Athosian Courtship
Rating: PG
Pairing: Teyla/Weir
Summary: "I thought you might be uncertain about my preferences and you did not wish to offend me," Teyla said. "I'm not offended."

A Very Athosian Courtship